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You could be forgiven for thinking a field full of tall, leafy crops in Baileys Brook is an illicit operation – but it’s perfectly legal, and not for smoking.
Bradley Jardine and Doug MacEachern are the owners of Northumberland Hemp, with 150 acres of industrial hemp growing in the province – mainly in Pictou County – that they process into hemp seed oil, flour and protein powder.
“As you can tell, it looks exactly the same as marijuana and that’s because it’s the same plant. It just has no THC, or very low levels,” Jardine said in an interview beside a 40-acre field where the plant is growing.
The exact level of psychoactive ingredient delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) for Health Canada’s industrial hemp regulations is no more than 0.3 per cent. Those who are issued a license have their plants tested for the THC levels, go through a...
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